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David Lowbridge

Ghost Haunts

Synopsis

Challenge your preconceptions as you take a journey into the spirit world from the trenches of World War One to the depths of space.
Ghost Haunts is a collection of short stories that will take you on an emotional journey exploring another realm. From the anguished depths of despair to a lingering love that cannot be divided we meet relentless tormentors, omens of impending doom and love that continues beyond the grave.

Author Biography

David Lowbridge is a science fiction and paranormal indie author based in the United Kingdom. He started writing when he was very young, but only in 2011 did he make the jump from writing for himself to publishing work online. With the exceptions of science fiction and paranormal, David is educated in business management and enjoys watching economic and historical programs.

Author Insight

Realising the obvious

I wanted to create something which quite often escapes a lot of us at times: the obvious. Throughout this story the characters have talked about how this escape pod is essentially space junk with no power. Yet they received a distress signal from it which allowed them to track it and "rescue" it. But the crew connect the dots far too late.

Book Excerpt

Ghost Haunts

Timmins strolled into the engineering compartment. He
rarely visited this area of this ship. He knew that he should visit the area
more often, but he hated the dirty smell that often resonated off the machines.
If he needed to hear anything from engineering he preferred to have Mehre come
up to him. However on this occasion, Mehre had insisted that the Captain was
needed in engineering to see some data that couldn't be transferred up to the
bridge. As was usual with his infrequent pre-planned visits to engineering,
Mehre was waiting for him at the entrance.

"What am I doing here?" Timmins asked resentfully,
the smell of engine oil and fluids had already begun to make him feel sick.

"I wanted to show you some readings I took last
night," Mehre stated, "these are the power readings from the escape
pod we have in the cargo bay at the moment."

Timmins took the diagnostic pad that Mehre handed him and
did a mental shrug, he had no idea what all the information on the pad meant.
He handed it back to Mehre, "You know full well that I can't tell an ohm
from a joule."

"The power cells in the life pod are zero,"
Mehre replied blankly.

"So?"

"If they are zero Captain; how the hell did we
receive a distress signal from it?" Mehre asked.